Can you find all the other pairs of 2 digit numbers where the product stays the same when the digits are reversed?
(Hint: Think about a strategy for finding them rather than just trying out lots of numbers.)
Imagine we have a pair of 2 digit numbers – let us call them 10a+b and 10c+d, where a and c are whole numbers less than 10.
Then we want the following to be true:
(10a+b)(10c+d) = (10b+a)(10d+c)
When we multiply this out we find that ac=bd, meaning that when we multiply the tens digits of the two numbers together this must equal the unit digits multiplied together, giving 28 possible pairs of two digit numbers.